David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes

I think I am a lot more relaxed about what I have or haven't done.

David Bowie

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• I find it quite boring when people do things that are very considered and thought through. I like things best when they're just done because they're fun or beautiful, or simply because they are what that one person wanted to do at that one time.

  

  Edie Campbell
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• I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.

  

  A. N. Wilson
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• When romance is done well in a movie, it's awesome.

  

  Nat Wolff
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• Yes, I've already done a couple of guest voices.

  

  Gary Cole
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• It's pleasant and bothersome and embarrassing all at once. Especially when you haven't done much and are a celebrity.

  Nastassja Kinski
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• My dad is from the army, and so we studied all over. I had done an Onida campaign at the age of two, as my mom always had this inclination for me to model, but my dad was clear that I could model only when I turned 18, so immediately after school, I started modelling.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
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• Attributing to anything or anyone more good than God has attributed to them is not a positive move, nor does it mean that you have done them any good. A single grain of truth is preferable to a bumper harvest of false imaginings.

  

  Said Nursi
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• When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end.

  

  Eamon de Valera
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• I am never not thinking about stories. 'The Bone Season' is 90% of my brain - 10% is interacting with the rest of the world.

  

  Samantha Shannon
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• I've done stuff to pay my dues and that's what actors are supposed to do, because I was a really bad actor when I was 18 or 20.

  

  Rachael Taylor
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• It is a weird thing that actors have people applaud when they're done working. I still find that entertaining.

  

  Val Kilmer
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• I can remember being at Sandringham, for the first time, at Christmas. And I was worried what to give the Queen as her Christmas present. I was thinking, 'Gosh, what should I give her?'. I thought, 'I'll make her something.' Which could have gone horribly wrong. But I decided to make my granny's recipe of chutney.

  

  Kate Middleton
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• Juggling many projects and having all these accidental collisions that you can't predict enables a kind of comparative thinking. To focus on a single project from beginning to end is extremely difficult, not just for me, but for many people.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
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• I always felt like Baba hated me a little. And why not? After all, I had killed his beloved wife, his beautiful princess, hadn't I? The least I could have done was to have the decency to have turned out a little more like him.

  

  Khaled Hosseini
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• Kind souls, you wonder why, love you,When you, you wonder why, love none.We love, Fool, for the good we do,Not that which unto us is done!

  

  Coventry Patmore
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• The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.

  

  Ben Elton
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• But for the first time in many years, I get to sleep in my own bed every night. I haven't done that, literally, in years. It seems like such a small thing, but it is so nice.

  

  Linda Vester
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• I've looked forward to being older because you will have that many more miles covered. We mustn't be led into thinking getting old is bad. Growing old is good.

  

  Joanna Lumley
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• Throughout your life, you've been influenced by what you have done in the past, what you have been told you can and cannot do, and what your present circumstances seem to dictate.

  

  Debbie Ford
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• I think it's very difficult to make any single, generalized statements about the press, of course the press is such varied character and quality and to the different media and so on, so a generalization is very difficult.

  

  Walter Millis
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• Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western civilization, is about competition.

  

  T Bone Burnett
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• Marijuana you can give up, Iv given it up for fifteen years now and it never occurs to me to smoke it anymore.

  

  Larry Hagman
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• I reserve the right, as president of the United States to meet with anybody at a time and place of my choosing if I think it's going to keep America safe.

  

  Barack Obama
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• I think I am a lot more relaxed about what I have or haven't done.

  

  David Bowie
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